In the weeks and days leading up to the privatization of Japanese National Railways on 1st April 1987, Japan Railways JR released a series of television commercials featuring Kumiko Goto 後藤 久美子 creating public awareness of the new brands under Japan Railways banner. These companies have simply become known as JR and consist of JR East, JR Hokkaido, JR Central, JR West, JR Shikoku and JR Kyushu.
The video begins with a daily countdown of a girl on a train platform telling viewers of how many days there are to go until the transition to Japan Railways.
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14 Comments
Imagine if JR east pulled a april fools…
Fantastic, although being Christmas, you should also add JRs Silent Night Commercials for the Shinkansen. Have a Merry Christmas Mike! Thanks for these great videos.
https://youtu.be/pYP_1MZyWBM
That young woman should be well into her 50s today, if not, her late 40s.
1:48 who is she? So beautiful
I really like japan train
Here's JR's ad for the 19th time
Kawaii girls and limp adman's rhymes
And Casio music, all synthsized
For our rails to be split and privatized.
(Spitting Image fans should get this.)
Good idea
Im from indonesian im like train kai
Japanese and American trains will always be my favorite
Can you guess the train station at 01:33 ?
Where is JR Hokkaido I am confused on which one
Wait. It can't be. It's that her in 1993 City Hunter movie. At first I thought she was from Hong Kong. And she's good at Cantonese.
J.R. full word mean = Jean Rlisi ,when she was young she has writing J. R . This advertisement very fumuse ,nobody know one day her hasbrand is Mr. Jean Rlisi , Unbelieveable it must be destiny
These are actually JNR Commercials before April 1, 1987.
JNR Commercials back then were so cool & more informative unlike of JR today
What are the stations that appears in the JR East countdown?